Quotes About Craving

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Desire is proof of the availability.

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving